Beauty in the Storm - 2nd Place Urban Landscape - Keep Iowa Beautiful 2022

Red Oak's historic downtown area makes a great backdrop to an early winter storm. This image was awarded 2nd place in the Cities category of the 2021-2022 Keep Iowa Beautiful Pnoto contest.

Early Morning Fog - 1st Place Landscape - Keep Iowa Beautiful 2022; 2nd Place Robert D Ray Best of Show 2022

I love the summer months. Iowa tends to give temperature and humidity fluctuations that range from tropical to fall like. Sometimes all in the same week! Here, the soft morning light, and pastel sky, accentuates the fog drifting across a rural Iowa scene